Oil on panel, circa 1904, unsigned, presented in a giltwood frame, retains galley documents.

Panel 8 3/4 x 11 3/4 in.; Frame dimensions 14 x 17 in.

From the estate of the late Robert H. Staton Jr., Durham, North Carolina

From the Estate of the artist.
Childs Gallery Ltd., Boston, Massachusetts

William Partridge Burpee received his formal training from the marine painter, William Bradford in the late 1870s. After briefly working as an artist in Rockland City, as an artist in Rockland City, Maine, Burpee relocated to Boston and began exhibiting in Boston in 188. He soon became a regular exhibitor and a member of the Boston Art Club. In 1897, Burpee left Boston to tour Spain, Italy, France, and England. He returned to the United States in 1899 and the next year returned to spend the summer in Holland. After his international travel and visits to the salons in Paris, his style became much more impressionistic.

Throughout his career, he exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Corcoran Gallery, Washington D.C., the American Watercolor Society, the L. D. M. Sweat Museum (now Portland Museum of Art), the Boston Society of Watercolor Painters and the Copley Society, Boston. His work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Massachusetts, the Rockland Public Library, Cheekwood, Nashville, Tennessee, Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, S.C., the Louisiana State University Museum of Art, the William A. Farnsworth Museum, Rockland, Maine, and the Portland Museum of Art, Maine.

Good estate condition.